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		<title>Yale Cross Collection Discovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently discovered Yale University&#8217;s Cross Collection Discovery service, and it&#8217;s really exciting. It lets you search for documents and artefacts across a number of collections and institutions at Yale. The digital images of the objects are open access. I browsed the scientific instruments for a while and also searched for pianos, as I always do. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halfpast.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3056544&amp;post=61&amp;subd=halfpast&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And the award for Best Index goes to…</title>
		<link>http://halfpast.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/and-the-award-for-best-index-goes-to%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Johann Joachim Quantz, for his Versuch einer Anweisung die Flöte traversiere zu spielen (1752). Most of all for the entry: Musicians, old, their mistakes. &#8211;young, their mistakes. &#8211;great, their mistakes. But here are some honorable mentions: Flute-makers, the mistakes made by most of them. Instrument makers, their mistakes. Music-lovers, their mistakes in judgment. Oh come now, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halfpast.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3056544&amp;post=53&amp;subd=halfpast&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GOArt Research Faculty meeting</title>
		<link>http://halfpast.wordpress.com/2010/03/24/goart-research-faculty-meeting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been invited to attend GOArt&#8217;s Research Faculty meetings this spring, and I&#8217;m really looking forward to it. The first meeting is tomorrow and will focus on a few texts about conservation: two articles by John Watson as well as the &#8220;Crafts and Conservation: Synthesis Report&#8221; from 2001 for ICCROM, the International Center for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halfpast.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3056544&amp;post=42&amp;subd=halfpast&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just for fun</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog has been on hiatus for a long while, but I would like to pick it up again and post more regularly in the future. Just to start things off on a light note, here&#8217;s something funny I came across the other day in C. F. D. Schubart&#8217;s Deutsche Chronik (yes, I mean funny [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halfpast.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3056544&amp;post=38&amp;subd=halfpast&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Goethezeitportal: German culture in the age of Goethe</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s another useful link: the Goethezeitportal, a excellent umbrella site linking to all kinds of online resources for the study of German art, literature and music in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The “Weblinks” page is extensive, and they also provide a large number of articles for download as PDF files directly on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halfpast.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3056544&amp;post=18&amp;subd=halfpast&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Playing the piano may be hazardous to your health?</title>
		<link>http://halfpast.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/playing-the-piano-may-be-hazardous-to-your-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[fortepiano]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someday I’d like to do a project on women and piano-playing around the turn of the 19th century. Women were perhaps the primary consumers of pianos for the home in this period, especially as the 19th century progressed. And I’ve noticed in my reading of late 18th-century musical journals that it was not at all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halfpast.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3056544&amp;post=17&amp;subd=halfpast&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wooden Artifacts Group website</title>
		<link>http://halfpast.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/wooden-artifacts-group-website/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wooden Artifacts Group of the American Institute for Conservation provides some useful resources here. You can browse their archive of postprints; also, the Digital Bookshelf is an excellent set of links to online books on cabinetmaking and related topics, mostly 18th- and 19-century. There are also links to wood image databases and other miscellaneous [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halfpast.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3056544&amp;post=16&amp;subd=halfpast&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>16th-century book of the arts</title>
		<link>http://halfpast.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/16th-century-book-of-the-arts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the collection of German manuscripts at the Münchner Digitalisierungszentrum (a project of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek) I found Wolfgang Seydel&#8217;s Kunstbuch oder von manigerlai Handwerchskünsten (loosely translated, Book of Arts, or Of Various Handcrafts) (1550-1560). I can’t read much of the handwriting, only a few words here and there (“glue,” “silver”), but for those who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halfpast.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3056544&amp;post=15&amp;subd=halfpast&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arts and Secrets from 1771</title>
		<link>http://halfpast.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/arts-and-secrets-from-1771/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Library of the Institute of Economic and Social History at the University of Cologne has a web site that links to an enormous number of digital resources, in particular for German history. I find the site a little difficult to navigate, and it looks like the main page may not have been updated in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halfpast.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3056544&amp;post=14&amp;subd=halfpast&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Schiedmayer fortepiano damage report</title>
		<link>http://halfpast.wordpress.com/2008/03/08/schiedmayer-piano-all-broken-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just discovered the Waller Manuscripts Collection at the University of Uppsala Library. What a knockout! It is a beautifully catalogued digital archive of manuscripts from the Middle Ages through the 20th century, mainly related to the sciences, all donated to the Uppsala Library in 1955 by the famous collector Erik Waller. You can view [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halfpast.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3056544&amp;post=13&amp;subd=halfpast&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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